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020 _a9781421411057
020 _a1421411059
020 _z9781421411040 (hardcover : acid-free paper)
020 _z1421411040 (hardcover : acid-free paper)
040 _aMdBmJHUP
_cMdBmJHUP
_dBD-SySUS.
050 0 0 _aQ143.E3
_bS65 2014
082 0 0 _a557.47092/2
_aB
_223
100 1 _aSpanagel, David I.
245 1 0 _aDeWitt Clinton and Amos Eaton
_h[electronic resource] :
_bgeology and power in early New York /
_cDavid I. Spanagel.
260 _aBaltimore :
_bThe Johns Hopkins University Press,
_c2014.
_e(Baltimore, Md. :
_fProject MUSE,
_g2015)
300 _a1 online resource (pages cm)
504 _aIncludes bibliographical references and index.
505 0 _aPreamble -- Introduction: Meeting place for waters and students of Earth history -- Part I. Exploring New York State -- Invitations to study the Earth's past -- Natural sciences and civic virtues -- The landlord and the ex-convict -- Part II. Engineering for a New World's geology -- Clinton's ditch -- Eaton's agricultural and geological surveys -- Empire State exports -- Part III. Entertaining deep time and the sublime -- Literary naturalists -- Kindred spirits -- Rocks, reverence, and religion -- Conclusion: Echoes of New York's embrace of the geological imperative.
588 _aDescription based on print version record.
600 1 0 _aClinton, DeWitt,
_d1769-1828.
600 1 0 _aEaton, Amos,
_d1776-1842.
650 0 _aPoliticians
_zNew York (State)
_vBiography.
650 0 _aScientists
_zNew York (State)
_vBiography.
650 0 _aGeology
_xPolitical aspects
_zNew York (State)
_xHistory
_y19th century.
650 0 _aGeology
_zUnited States
_xHistory
_y19th century.
650 0 _aGeology
_zNew York (State)
_xHistory
_y19th century.
651 0 _aNew York (State)
_xIntellectual life
_y19th century.
651 0 _aNew York (State)
_xPolitics and government
_y19th century.
610 2 0 _aRensselaer Polytechnic Institute
_xHistory.
655 7 _aElectronic books.
_2local
710 2 _aProject Muse.
830 0 _aUPCC book collections on Project MUSE.
856 4 0 _zFull text available:
_uhttps://muse.jhu.edu/books/9781421411057/
942 _2Dewey Decimal Classification
_ceBooks
999 _c29259
_d29259